Mucilage-bottle



STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE IVATSON TAYLOR, OF ORANGE, TEXAS.

MUClLAGE-BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 575,013, dated January 12, 1897. Application filed May 23, 1896. Serial No. 592,739. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE WATSON TAY- LOR, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Orange, in the county of Orange and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mucilage-Bottles, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof, in which similar letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts.

This invention relates to mucilage-bottles, and the object thereof is to provide an improved device of this class in the neck of which is mounted a spring-supported guide through which the brush is adapted to be passed, said brush being connected with a plug orstopper by which the guide is adapted to be depressed when said plug or stopper is inserted into the neck and the handle of the brush being passed through said plug or stopper, a further object being to provide a mucilage-bottle which is so constructed and arranged that the neck thereof cannot become clogged with dried mucilage.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which Figure 1 is a central vertical section of my improved mucilage-bottle, showing the plug or stopper and the brush in position; Fig. 2, a similar View with the plug or stopper and the brush removed; Fig. 3, a bottom plan View of the plug or stopper, and Fig. 4 a plan view of the guide which is placed in the neck thereof.

In the practice of my invention I provide a bottle A, which may be of any desired form and size, and which is provided with a neck a, which is much larger than the necks of similar bottles as usually constructed.

Formed in the bottom of the bottle and centrally thereof is an annular shoulder or flange a and placed therein is a spiral spring B, and I also provide a vertically-movable tubular guide D, the walls of the upper end of which are inwardly and downwardly contracted, whereby an annular inwardly-directed shoulder 61 is formed, and the upper end of the spring B is passed into the lower end of the guide, and said guide rests upon said spring, being supported by the annular inwardly-directed shoulder (L The guide D is also provided on its opposite sides with outwardly-directed wire yokes E, four of which are preferably employed and which are adapted to center the guide and retain it in proper relative position to the neck a, and said wire yokes E are secured to said guide in any desired manner.

The plug or stopper G is composed of soft wood or cork, and passing centrally therethrough is the handle H of the brush 7t, and secured to the lower side of said plug or stopper are radial loops or yokes g, which are 65 composed of wire and which, when the plug or stopper G is inserted or forced into the neck, are adapted to bear upon the upper end of the guide and to force it downwardly into the position shown in Fig. 1.

The spring B and the yokes or loops E and g are preferably composed of metal which will not be affected by fluids or acids, and the guide D is preferably composed of hard rubber or similar material, and the inwardly-directed annular shoulder d, formed therein, is adapted to serve as means for removing the surplus mucilage from the brush when the latter is withdrawn.

It will be understood that the position of the brush may be adjusted in the plug or stopper G, and the springB is also preferably of such strength as to hold the guide when the plug or stopper is removed in the position shown in Fig. 2, and the operation of removing the surplus mucilage from the brush will not withdraw the guide from the neck of the bottle.

The guide D should not be depressed below the neck of the bottle, and any surplus mu- 9o cilage that may be removed from the brush on the inwardly-directed shoulder b will drop backwardly into the bottle, and if at any time it should become necessary the guideD may be removed and cleaned, and in practice 5 I prefer to secure the spring B in said guide in such manner that said spring may also be removed, if desired, when the guide is removed.

It will thus be seen that no mucilage can come in contact with the neck of the bottle in the operation of this device nor in contact with the plug or stopper, and these parts are therefore free from dried mueilage at all times.

My improved mucilage-bottle is simple in construction and operation and perfectly adapted to accomplish the result for which it is intended, and it is evident that changesin the form, construction, and arrangement of the various parts thereof may be made without departing from the spirit of my invention or sacrificing its advantages, and I reserve the right to make all such alterations therein as fairly come within the scope of the invention.

Ilavin g fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters 1atent .l. The combination with a bottle, provided with an enlarged neck, of a Vertically-1novable tubular guide which is sustained concentrically within said neck, and supported by a spiral spring which rests upon the bottom of the bottle, and a plug or stopper through which passes the handle of the brush, said plug or stopper being adapted to be illserted into the neck and to depress said guide, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combinationwith abottle, provided with an enlarged neck, of a verticallymovable tubular guide which is sustained concentrically within said neck, and supported by a spiral spring which rests upon the bottom of the bottle, and a plug or stopper through which passes the handle of the brush, said plug or stopper being adapted to be inserted into the neck and to depress said guide, and said brush being adapted to be passed through said guide, and said guide being provided with an annular inwardly-directed shoulder by means of which the surplus mucilage may be removed from the brush, substantially as shown and described.

3. The combination with a bottle, provided with an enlarged neck, of a vertically-movable tubular guide which is sustained concentricall y within said neck, and supported by a spiral spring which rests upon the bottom of the bottle, and a plug or stopper through which passes the handle of the brush, said plug or stopper being adapted to be inserted into the neck and to depress said guide, and said brush being adapted to be passed through said guide, and said guide being provided with an annular inwardly-directed shoulder by means of which the surplus mucilage may be removed from the brush, and said guide being also provided at its opposite sides with outwardly-directed wire loops by which it is retained concentrically in the neck of the bottle, substantially as shown and described.

4;. The combination with a bottle, provided with an enlarged neck, of a vertically-movable tubular guide which is sustained concentrically within said neck, and supported bya spiral spring which rests upon the bottom of the bottle, and a plug or stopper through which passes the handle of the brush, said plug or stopper being adapted to be inserted into the neck and to depress said guide, and said brush being adapted to be passed through said guide, and said guide being provided with an annular inwardly-directed shoulder by means of which the surplus mucilage may be removed from the brush, and said guide being provided at its opposite side with outwardly-directed wire loops by which it is retained concentrically in the neck of the bottie, and said plug or stopper being provided 011 its bottom with radial wire loops which are adapted to come in contact with said guide, substantially as shown. and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of the subscribing witnesses, this 14th day of May, 1896.

GEORGE WATSON TAYLOR.

Witnesses:

W. J. DILLARD, O. E. WIrHEnsrooN. 

